Yun-Jung Choi¹, Heewon Song^2,*

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.26, No.6, pp. 475-480, 2024, DOI:10.32604/ijmhp.2024.050824

Abstract During the rapid spread of COVID-19, first responders are at risk of being exposed to COVID-19 due to their role in providing first aid and responding to an unspecified number of people. This uncertainty can have adverse mental health effects, such as increased anxiety and fear. This study aimed to investigate the degree of association between fear of COVID-19, obsession with COVID-19, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in emergency rescue firefighters. The participants were 150 emergency rescue firefighters working in Region S, Korea. They filled out self-report questionnaires: The data obtained through the Fear of… More >

Maria Gul¹, Imran Ali Khan¹, Gohar Zaman², Atta Rahman^3,*, Jamaluddin Mir², Sardar Asad Ali Biabani^4,5, May Issa Aldossary⁶, Mustafa Youldash⁷, Ashraf Saadeldeen⁸, Maqsood Mahmud⁹, Asiya Abdus Salam⁶, Dania Alkhulaifi³, Abdullah AlTurkey³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.1, pp. 1631-1657, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.048289

Abstract Obstacle removal in crowd evacuation is critical to safety and the evacuation system efficiency. Recently, many researchers proposed game theoretic models to avoid and remove obstacles for crowd evacuation. Game theoretical models aim to study and analyze the strategic behaviors of individuals within a crowd and their interactions during the evacuation. Game theoretical models have some limitations in the context of crowd evacuation. These models consider a group of individuals as homogeneous objects with the same goals, involve complex mathematical formulation, and cannot model real-world scenarios such as panic, environmental information, crowds that move dynamically,… More >

Haoliang Yang^*, Yonggang Dong, Zhifang Yang

Energy Engineering, Vol.120, No.12, pp. 2917-2931, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ee.2023.029167

Abstract Reducing the impact of power outages and maintaining the power supply duration must be considered in implementing emergency energy dispatching in micro-networks. This paper studies a new emergency energy treatment method based on the robust optimal method and the industrial park micro-network with the optical energy storage system. After controlling the load input, a control strategy of adjusting and removing is proposed. Rolling optimal theory is applied to emergency energy scheduling based on a robust optimal mathematical model. A weighting factor is introduced into the optimal model to balance the importance of reducing and retaining More >

Wei Sun¹, Zhanhe Du^2,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 1181-1195, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.037497

Abstract Currently, it is difficult to extract the depth feature of the frontal emergency stops dangerous activity signal, which leads to a decline in the accuracy and efficiency of the frontal emergency stops the dangerous activity. Therefore, a recognition for frontal emergency stops dangerous activity algorithm based on Nano Internet of Things Sensor (NIoTS) and transfer learning is proposed. First, the NIoTS is installed in the athlete’s leg muscles to collect activity signals. Second, the noise component in the activity signal is removed using the de-noising method based on mathematical morphology. Finally, the depth feature of… More >

Runze Liu, Liguo Fei^*, Jianing Mi

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.2, pp. 2039-2067, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.024927

Abstract Probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs) are an effective tool for expressing subjective human cognition that offer advantages in the field of multi-attribute decision-making (MADM). However, studies have found that PLTSs have lost their ability to accurately capture the views of decision-makers (DMs) in certain circumstances, such as when the DM hesitates between multiple linguistic terms or the decision information is incomplete, thus affecting their role in the decision-making process. Belief function theory is a leading stream of thought in uncertainty processing that is suitable for dealing with the limitations of PLTS. Therefore, the purpose of… More > Graphic Abstract

Naqqash Dilshad¹, Taimoor Khan², JaeSeung Song^1,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 749-764, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.034475

Abstract To prevent economic, social, and ecological damage, fire detection and management at an early stage are significant yet challenging. Although computationally complex networks have been developed, attention has been largely focused on improving accuracy, rather than focusing on real-time fire detection. Hence, in this study, the authors present an efficient fire detection framework termed E-FireNet for real-time detection in a complex surveillance environment. The proposed model architecture is inspired by the VGG16 network, with significant modifications including the entire removal of Block-5 and tweaking of the convolutional layers of Block-4. This results in higher performance… More >

Vitaliy Suvorov^*, Vladimir Zaitsev, Nikolay Pilyugov, Olga Tereshenko, Michail Komissarov

Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.18, No.1, pp. 57-65, 2023, DOI:10.32604/chd.2023.025522

Abstract Critical aortic valve stenosis in newborns is the cause of a severe clinical condition with the onset of symptoms during first hours after birth. We present a clinical case of a successful surgical correction of a critical aortic stenosis using a hybrid method applied in a newborn during the first day of life. The infant was diagnosed with a hypoplastic left heart complex with an intact atrial septum (aortic and mitral valves stenosis variant), that led to the cardiogenic shock and acute pulmonary edema. The procedure included bilateral banding of the pulmonary artery branches and More > Graphic Abstract

Mingjun Jiang^*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.1, pp. 487-515, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.024014

Abstract Emergency decision-making problems usually involve many experts with different professional backgrounds and concerns, leading to non-cooperative behaviors during the consensus-reaching process. Many studies on non-cooperative behavior management assumed that the maximum degree of cooperation of experts is to totally accept the revisions suggested by the moderator, which restricted individuals with altruistic behaviors to make more contributions in the agreement-reaching process. In addition, when grouping a large group into subgroups by clustering methods, existing studies were based on the similarity of evaluation values or trust relationships among experts separately but did not consider them simultaneously. In… More >

Chongyang Nie, Fankai Kong^*, Huaqiu Ding, Hongli Pan

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.135, No.1, pp. 483-510, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.021083

Abstract The different folding and storage forms of an inflatable boarding platform will have a direct impact on the deployment effect of the marine emergency evacuation system. This paper proposes different folding and storage methods for an inflatable boarding platform in a marine emergency evacuation system. According to the difference between the fold line and the fold direction, the numerical models of a boarding platform with partial fold, “Z” type fold and inner spiral fold are established. The platform models with three folding modes are simulated by numerical simulation. According to the numerical results of the More > Graphic Abstract

V. Krishnakumar^*, R. Asokan

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.45, No.1, pp. 985-1000, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.029189

Abstract Wireless sensor Mobile ad hoc networks have excellent potential in moving and monitoring disaster area networks on real-time basis. The recent challenges faced in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) include scalability, localization, heterogeneous network, self-organization, and self-sufficient operation. In this background, the current study focuses on specially-designed communication link establishment for high connection stability of wireless mobile sensor networks, especially in disaster area network. Existing protocols focus on location-dependent communications and use networks based on typically-used Internet Protocol (IP) architecture. However, IP-based communications have a few limitations such as inefficient bandwidth utilization, high processing, less… More >